Category Archives: Family

2011/05/03 Koinobori, Carp shaped flags for my son!

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110502koinobori06 In Japan, we, Japanese set up "Koinobori", Carp shaped flags, from April to the early month of May.

Koinobori are flown traditionally to celebrate "Children's Day" takes place on May 5th.

We, Japanese decorate Koinobori to pray that sons or grand sons grow up healty and strong.

According to the story of china, when the carp finishes climbing up the waterfall it become a dragon at the dragongate.

So Japanese parents hung Koinobori up in the sky for children rise up like a dragon in the future.

Yesterday my son, Yuuki and I set up Koinobori in our patio together.

You can see the other photos which I took yesterday here.

2011/04/28 The flowers are blooming and the sea is so gorgeous!

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110428flower01 The season of Sakura had already finished, but we can see the green leaves on the mountain instead of Sakura.

From now it is getting warmer and we have a very good season of flowers.

My son Yuuki goes to the primary school with friends by walking every day. ( You can see him behind the flowers in this picture.)

His friends, the upper class students worry about my son and help him to walk.

By the way we are getting into the Golden Week from tomorrow …..

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2011/03/25 Walking to the Beach – – Snow on Amagi Mountains

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110325beach01 It was sunny and very warm here in Shimoda today after 4 days with rain and strong wind.

I asked my son walking and went to the beach together.

While my son was playing on the beach I saw the mountains over Shirahama shrine, and found that those mountains had snow on the top.

It was very cold and we had rain last night, so they had snow there.

Spring is coming, but still a little bit cold here.

Click here to see the other pictures which I took on the beach today.

2011/02/18 Thank you & Good bye Ceremony at Shirahama kindergarten

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110218yuuki01 This morning we had a strong wind and a rain here in Shirahama at around 6:00 AM.

But it was changed, and it became sunny at around 9:00 AM.

Today my wife and I went to Shirahama kindergarten with my son, because they had a ceremony for children.

It is called Owakare-kai in Japanese.

It means a ceremony which the children say thank you and good bye to the children finishing kindergarten….

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2011/02/14 St. Valentine’s day

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110214valentine01 Today my wife gave me and my son this chocolate cake.

Yes, it was St. Valentine's day today.

In Japan a lot of women have been giving a chocolate to men who they love for a long time.

But recently they, women give a chocolate to not only men in love but also men not in love.

It means the women give a present to the people around, for example, colleagues or friends though they don't love them.

In addition, especially in these days men give a present to women.

In Japan St. Valentine's day was made by confectionary companies long time ago and was developped as a different one from the other coutries.